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Originally Posted by SanitysEdge
According to my starry night software the sun passes though the galactic longitudinal equator on December 9, 2012 at 12:47:29 AM Eastern US Time. On that day absolutely nothing will happen. The world and solar system will continue to exist as they always have. There is no empirical evidence to state otherwise that something bad will happen. Other stars have passed though the galactic equator and nothing happened to them.
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Alignments with the galactic equator, and with the zero meridian of galactic longitude happen every year, not just in 2012. I'm not sure what you mean by "longitudinal equator", but it's perhaps worth pointing out that the sun is
not passing through the equatorial plane of the galaxy at that time; we're well away from it, and moving farther.
Grant Hutchison